server side includes

[durangod]

Hi i am trying to use ssi with a smaller hosting company. I took the command from my other site and put it in my htaccess

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

then i created the file and then put this in the html file.

<!--#include virtual="includes/header.html" -->

i have done this quite a bit on my other hosting company and it works fine.

for some reason on this smallerr hosting company server it is trying to download the files instead of including them

i do not know what to tell the hosting company what to do, is it their server config setting that they need to set or what.

this should be a normal feature but for some reason is it not.

So what do i tell them they need to do or what do i need to do on my end to make ssi work.

thanks.

[teedoff]

Do they support SSI's? Most hosting sites do, but some might not.

Also, some plans require the extension to be "shtml" in order for SSI's to work.

[durangod]

i played around a bit with some commands and i did get it to work finally this way.

AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddType    text/html     html

anything else i need to add or should that suffice?

i will also let them know how so they can help other customers, i know how it is to struggle when you first start out, especially with hosting and stuff.